To what extent was The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) intended to be a distinctive ethical teaching for all people? Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount is one of the 5 main blocks of teaching in the gospel- emulating Torah. ‘Without our noticing‚ faith can degenerate into religiosity...That is when the teaching of Jesus brings us up with a jerk.’[1] The sermon presents the reader with a radical teaching from Jesus‚ completely divergent to any preceding teaching in Judaism; it offers a stark contrast
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Seventeenth-century sermon techniques in Benjamin Franklin’s "Way to Wealth" communicate his secular eighteenth-century principles. First‚ Franklin’s structure contains a text‚ a doctrine section‚ and an application section as a Puritan sermon would. Franklin addresses a question concerning the financial problems of the day‚ and he takes his text from “Poor Richard’s Almanac.” Based on the issue raised concerning finances‚ Franklin formulates the thesis that the tax commissioners are unable to ease
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1. To whom is the sermon addressed? The Congregation that he is preaching to. 2. According to Edwards‚ why is God wrathful? People are sinners‚ wicked‚ and his wrath is infinite and inevitable. 3. Reread the sixth paragraph. What people‚ according to Edwards‚ are not in the hands of this angry God? How is this state achieved? We are all sinners no matter what we believe or practice. It is God who keeps us from destruction and that has nothing to do with anything that we think prevents it. 4.
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the mood of this passage. The mood of the passage is persuasive angry admonitory. 2. Using specific examples‚ give one example of a metaphor‚ one example of a simile‚ and one example of an allusion that Edwards uses in this passage from the sermon to elicit this particular mood. An example of a metaphor is “fire of wrath.” An example of a simile would be “and you would be like the chaff on the summer threshing floor.” The allusion that Jonathan Edward uses in the passage is “Hell.”
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In this short story by Mary –Louise Buxton‚ 2005‚ we get to look at the world through a little girl‚ called Elizabeth’s eyes which brings our minds back to the time when we were little and afraid of ghost and the dark. The short story is about this little girl’s everyday-life and that’s what makes it interesting‚ it brings some memories to the reader. Elizabeth is the main character‚ a 6-7 year old girl who has an imaginary fantasy just like every other child at that age. (Elizabeth mentions
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volcanoes‚ Mount Vesuvius located on the Italian east coast and Mount Tambora located on the northern coast of Sumbawa island‚ Indonesia. Volcanoes are the most destructive natural disasters. Both Mount Vesuvius and Mount Tambora have caused great destruction in the past‚ killing many people and destroying entire cities. This poster will compare and contrast the volcanoes types/structure‚ the cause of the eruptions and the current levels of activity . Body Both Mount Vesuvius and Mount Tambora are
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Meeting God’s presence After King Uzziah died‚ Isaiah saw the vision of God’s presence surrounded by Seraphs‚ and he gets calling from God to be a messenger. 1 In the year that King Uzziah died‚ I saw the Lord sitting on a throne‚ high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple. 2 Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces‚ and with two they covered their feet‚ and with two they flew. 3 And one called to another and said: “Holy‚ holy‚ holy
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This essay is a sermon delivered by John Winthrop to the Puritans aboard the ship Arbella as it sailed to America in 1630. Winthrop was an early Puritan leader and the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Winthrop writes that God has purposely made some people to be rich and others poor in order to manifest his work in the areas of mercy‚ love‚ gentleness‚ temperance‚ faith‚ patience and obedience. He also speaks of the moral gospel’ that requires man to help one another in every want
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"Good example is the best sermon." -Benjamin Franklin Too often we hear of people telling us the right thing to do‚ yet they do not abide by the sermons that they tell us. However‚ there are those few special people in our life that we look up to. We look up to them because they not only teach us the right way to live our lives‚ but they also provide us with a good example. Supplying a fine example teaches people more than someone just telling them what is
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In this essay I will tell you about the main parts of a volcano and it’s origin. The first main part I will tell you about is the magma chamber. A magma chamber is a large pool of molten rock‚ also called magma‚ sitting underneath the Earth’s crust. The magma chamber can be more than three miles below the Earth’s surface and the magma waits there for the pressure and gases to become too much to stay stable. The magma in the magma chamber is less tense than the mantle surrounding it‚ so it moves toward
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